TIFFANY BROWN
Co-founder and Investment Advisor
Tiffany worked in the non-profit sector for over a decade before transitioning into her work in finance. Her career has ranged from being Co-Director at YES!, Board member at Common Fire Foundation, founding advisor to Kindle Project Foundation, to directing national leadership retreats at Resource Generation, and serving on the Finance Committee for Haymarket People’s Fund. Most of her work has been focused on working with young people with wealth. She currently serves on the boards of Pie Ranch, Center for Economic Democracy and Resource Generation.
Her entry into social justice work was through learning about race and racism in the US, and interning with the SE Regional NAACP’s Prison Project in Atlanta, GA. Tiffany cultivated her zest for justice at the University of California at Santa Cruz, where she graduated in 2002 with a bachelor’s degree in Community Studies.
Tiffany loves hosting dinner parties, dancing and homemaking. She enjoys karaoke with friends, where she can allow her inner performer to run wild.
KATE POOLE
Co-founder and Investment Advisor
Kate is thrilled to be able to partner with young people with inherited wealth to transform their investment portfolios, after years of organizing and agitating in the impact investing field. Kate has worked in the local investing ecosystem since 2009, and has been a member of Resource Generation since 2013. She co-founded Regenerative Finance in 2014 to organize other inheritors to shift control of capital to frontline communities. She served on the board of the New Economy Coalition from 2018-2023.
Kate is a white Jewish dyke and identifies as owning-class. She loves dance and feminist performance art, and making zines and comics. She lives in Philadelphia with her wife, who is also named Kate.
KALAMA KUAHIWINUI-SANTIAGO
Client Services Associate
Kalama Kuahiwinui-Santiago was born and raised in a small town on the Big Island of Hawaii. Coming from a tight knit community, Kalama has always had a passion for helping others. It was through a friend that she was introduced to Chordata Capital and learned of the amazing work that Tiffany and Kate were doing to help build communities such as her own. Proud to be Hawaiian and having a vision to invest back into her own community someday, Kalama realized the importance of working with like-minded people who share and support the same values.
Kalama brings many years of administrative experience to Chordata Capital. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family or having a peaceful day at the beach. Kalama also loves working in her yard or her husband’s garden which they use to donate produce to families in the community. She looks forward to meeting and working with Chordata Capital’s clients!
NYIA HAWKINS
Investment and Portfolio Coordinator
Impact investing is Nyia’s second career. After 20 years of experience in journalism, including a decade focused on business and economics, she is aligning her passions with her profession, leveraging her storytelling skills to support the transformation of economic systems to create a more equitable future.
She is also an impact strategist for the AmbitioUS initiative at the Center for Cultural Innovation, as well as the host and producer of The Soul of Capital podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, created in collaboration with CCI. The podcast introduces listeners to alternative economic models and the changemakers leading them. In another life she was Cheddar News Executive Producer for Special Projects and has reported and produced news for CGTN and the Associated Press.
SARAH ABBOTT
Communications and Executive Support
Sarah Abbott grew up in southeastern Minnesota on Dakota land, and currently lives in Minneapolis with her partner and her many houseplants. She has been part of social and environmental change movements for fifteen years, and spent a decade organizing young people with wealth for wealth redistribution while on staff with Resource Generation, where she met Tiffany. More recently, she was the Managing Director of the Sunrise Movement, a young-people-led movement fighting climate change and organizing for a Green New Deal. She is currently a somatic coach trained through generative somatics, as well as a teacher with Embodying Racial Justice. She continues to organize locally in Minneapolis as part of movements for justice.
As a white woman with access to wealth, Sarah believes deeply in the work of repair and reparations as a lifelong path, and is thrilled to be supporting Chordata’s work. She also loves to sing with her community and to host creative events.
